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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
COMPENSATION FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE.
217.-The Postmaster-General will (not in consequence of any legal liability, but voluntarily, as an act of grace) give compensation for the loss or damage of uninsured parcels sent by Parcels Post between Hongkong and the United Kingdom and the undermentioned British Possessions and Foreign Countries, when such loss or damage takes place while the parcels are in his custody, and does not arise from any fault or neglect of the senders or the nature of the contents:-
Ascension Bahamas Barbados
British Guiana
British Honduras
Ceylon
Cyprus
Argentine Republic
Austria-Hungary
Azores
Belgium
Beyrout
Bosnia
Bulgaria
BRITISH POSSESSIONS.
Falkland Islands
Gambia
Gibraltar
Gold Coast Colony Grenada Labuan
Lagos
FOREIGN
Congo Free State
Costa Rica
Danish West Indies Denmark
Dutch Possessions
Egypt
France
Leeward Islands Mauritius Newfoundland North Borneo St. Helena St. Lucia St. Vincent
COUNTRIES.
Herzegovina Holland
Italy
Japan
Liberia
Luxemburg
Madeira
Seychelles Sierra Leone South Australia Tobago Trinidad
Samoa (via Germany) Servia Smyrna Spain Sweden Switzerland Tangier
Cameroons
Chili
Colombia, Republic of Constantinople
French Possessions Germany
German Possessions Greece
Norway
Portugal
Roumania
Salvador
Tripoli
Tunis
Turkey
Uruguay
218.---The compensation paid will in no case exceed $10.00. The compensation payable in the case of parcels not weighing more than 7 . is limited to $5.00.
219.-No. compensation is payable for the loss or damage of an uninsured parcel sent to or from any British possession or Foreign country other than those mentioned above.
The compensation payable will be in accordance with the Rules contained in Rule 97, and with the General Regulations of the local Parcel Post, so far as these are applicable.
As regards insured parcels see next Rules.
INSURANCE OF PARCELS.
220.—Parcels for the United Kingdom and the undermentioned Foreign Countries and British Possessions can be insured :-
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Algeria and Corsica Austria Hungary Azores and Madėžda
Belgium
Beyrouth
Bosnia Herzagovina Cameroons
Chili
Constantinople
Danish West Indies
Denmark
France
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* Insurance confined to parcels for the towns of Cameroon and Victoria. § No compensation is given for the damage in Italy of fragile or perishable parcels or parcels containing liquids. Adrianople, Caifa, (Haifo), Candia, Canea, Cavalla, Dardanelles, Dedeagh, Durazzo, Gallipoli, Ineboli, Jaffa, Janina, Jerusalem, Kèresun, Lagos, Mytilene, Prevesa, Retimo, Rhodes, Salonica, Samsoun, San Giovanni di Merlua, Santi Quaranta, Scio, Trebizond, Valona, Vathi.